The Oakland Raiders may end up with the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft but no matter what happened it looks like the cleaning house and firing everyone is the first order of business.
It’s been a rough 20 years for the Oakland Raiders, a team that hasn’t been remotely good since they lost in the Super Bowl back in 2002 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Since then, it’s been nothing but losing and an endless string of head coaches and quarterbacks to have blown through the Bay Area in a frustrating decade of suck for the Raiders. That’s all going to change — or at least the attempt is going to be made to change it — after the season is over.
According to Adam Schefter from ESPN, the Raiders are getting ready to clean house at the end of the season and spend money on bringing in a winning regime.
Oakland preparing for sweeping changes that involve its GM Reggie McKenzie, according to league sources. Mark Davis getting ready to spend.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 14, 2014
The two biggest names to watch in Oakland are Jim Harbaugh and Jon Gruden. The latter coached the Raiders during one of their only successful periods of the last 20 years, laying the foundation for a team that would eventually go to the Super Bowl in 2002.
Harbaugh has been rumored as being trade bait for the Raiders, as they’d love to acquire a coach like him to provide the swift kick in the ass the franchise needs.
Neither candidate is a slam dunk, but no one on the current staff looks like they’re going to be keeping their jobs after the utterly atrocious last few years that have been scotch taped together.
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